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Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren’s credentials, support, and savvy make her almost untouchable — and she knows it. Elizabeth Warren was the only senator on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, aside from the chair and ranking minority, to show up at last Thursday's hearing on indexing the minimum wage to inflation.

Everyone knew – and safety records confirm – that the budget buses were unsafe. So what took regulators so long to step in? When federal transportation regulators declared Fung Wah buses a safety hazard on Feb. 25, no one who had ever taken the budget carrier could have been shocked in the least.

Boston’s most notorious gangster and one of America’s legendary bad guys At the heart of the two riveting new books documenting the life and times of Whitey Bulger, Boston’s most notorious gangster and one of America’s legendary bad guys, is this paradox ...

She could have been the Republican party’s future. Instead, she was abandoned, insulted, abused, and ridiculed by the GOP and its partisans Young, attractive, ambitious, conservative, and black, Nadia Naffe should have been a right-wing operative’s dream.

Four writers on the tragedy that disfigured Rhode Island It's been 10 years since fire tore through a roadhouse in West Warwick — killing 100, injuring 200 more, and singeing thousands of New Englanders whose mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and friends died inside The Station or never quite figured out how to live outside of it.

Why the climate-justice movement must embrace its radicalism to fight it I want to say a word for radicalism — for the role of the radical in building a movement to confront climate change, the most urgent crisis human beings have ever faced.